NAME: Ali
SURNAME: Soltanolamaei
NICKNAME: Soltan
DB/P: 1981. Tehran, Iran
PRO: Typographer, Researcher
E: info@psygraphy.com
RESIDENCY: Marktgasse 19, 8302 Kloten, Switzerland
T. +41 (0)76 574 42 55
SURNAME: Soltanolamaei
NICKNAME: Soltan
DB/P: 1981. Tehran, Iran
PRO: Typographer, Researcher
E: info@psygraphy.com
RESIDENCY: Marktgasse 19, 8302 Kloten, Switzerland
T. +41 (0)76 574 42 55
Ali Soltanolamaei is a graphic communicator and typography award-winning, actively involved in the International Council of Design (Ico-D). His profession centers on the social and anthropological aspects of language.
He is currently fully tenured in Psygraphy as a researcher and educator, with a particular focus on linguistics methodology. His pedagogical approach supports multimodality and expanded practices, challenges dogmatism and encourages openness and curiosity.
He has continuously shaped and reinvented the profile of his subject area by anchoring typography research and visual cultures as core study areas and by opening up the curriculum for explorative and inquiring processes.
His discursive practice brings together teaching, writing, speaking, publishing and social engagement, and serves as a catalyst for prompting post-disciplinary conversations within and outside the academic sphere.
He has initiated, led and participated in several third-party funded research projects concerning typography and pedagogy.
In particular, he is interested in marginalized and hidden narratives, practices and epistemologies, in issues of alterity, effects and imagination; and in educating for uncertain times.
Alongside his professional roles, he co-directs and co-organizes cultural events related to philosophy and art.
His work is driven by a belief in transcending the confines of dichotomy, advocating for encounter and dialogue, and working towards ways of being and knowing that resonate with the complexities of our contemporary existence.
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